Frank Zappa (Photo: Newsweek)
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- Frank Zappa
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
- Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
Never fight an inanimate object.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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